When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, twelve-year-old May's father pulls her from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier. Interest Level: 3-6 Reading Level: 4.0 ATOS Book Level: 4.3 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 2 AR Quiz: 148809EN Reading Counts Level: 4.2 Reading Counts Points: 6 Lexile Measure: 680 Fountas & Pinnell: V.